God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters (6 of 10) - God's End-of-the-Age Fishermen

Hello, friends. I'm Chadwick Harvey, and this is Faithful Performance, where we explore the testimony of the biblical prophets and how they perfectly correlate with the current events of today. Thank you for joining us.

In this episode we're going to continue our book series on *God's Fishermen, Satan's Hunters: The Unspoken Biblical Prophecy That Is Terrorizing the World*. We're in episode six, and we'll be discovering God's end-of-the-age fishermen. Before we commence, I'd like to summarize the first five episodes.

In episode one we spoke of God's everlasting covenants: the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the New Covenant. In summary, the Abrahamic Covenant promises a seed and the Promised Land. The Davidic Covenant promises a seed that will rule over David's everlasting throne — the same seed as the Abrahamic Covenant. We found that in Matthew 1: the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, which is Jesus, Yeshua. He is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants, upon which the New Covenant builds and extends. They happen in order: the Abrahamic, then the Davidic, then the New Covenant. Jesus is the New Covenant. We are all saved by the blood of the New Covenant, and we will be living fully in the New Covenant when the Jewish people accept Yeshua as their God and He will be their God — Ezekiel 36 and Jeremiah 31. It is important to understand the foundation of those covenants, because the biblical prophets all return to them. The reason for Jesus's return is God's plan of salvation for Jew and Gentile. The Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants all point to Jesus the Messiah.

In episode two we discovered the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters, found in Jeremiah 16. This prophecy reverts back to the everlasting covenants — that is why God is going to fish the Jewish people back at the end of the age, and then afterward hunt them back to the Promised Land, because of the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants. We also discovered that this prophecy was not fulfilled in the past and that its fulfillment began at a certain marker, which we will get into today.

In episode three we discovered who God's original fishermen were: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Jesus, Yeshua. Those are the original fishermen of the covenants.

In episode four we discovered who Satan's original hunters were — those who came directly and personally against Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Jesus. We found them to be Nimrod, Ishmael, Esau, Goliath, and the Herodian dynasty. Every time God was about to make a covenant, a specific hunter arose against the original fishermen personally to try to prohibit the covenant from being made. This is what the whole end of the age is about: God's everlasting promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, fulfilled through Yeshua, extending to their descendants and to Gentiles who are grafted into those promises. Romans 11, Ephesians 2, Galatians 3:26–29 — if you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir to the promise.

In episode five, last week's episode, we discovered the mystery of Aliyah — one of the most unique and significant signs of the end of the age is the Jewish people returning to the Promised Land. That is one of the clearest prophetic signs that we are living at the end of the age, when God causes people back through the fishermen and then ultimately through the hunters to provoke their return. We tied this in with the celestial bodies and the blood moon tetrads: four of the five occurrences in the last 500 years fell on the Lord's Feast Days of Passover and Tabernacles. Each of those three most recent tetrads coincided with a migration or Aliyah to the Promised Land brought about by persecution.

In this week's episode we are going to discover God's end-of-the-age fishermen. Last week's episode served as the gateway to bringing the prophecy up to date over the past few decades, and as we continue forward we will bring it up to the present day of 2021. Next week we will get into Satan's end-of-the-age hunters.

Before proceeding, I want to be very clear: I am not speaking about Matthew 4:19, where all who are saved by Jesus are called to be fishermen of the gospel and to fish people into the Kingdom. That is not what we are discussing here. We are all fishermen in that sense. What I am speaking about is the end-of-the-age fishermen of Jeremiah's prophecy in Jeremiah 16, as the prophet himself would have understood it in light of the everlasting covenants — just as the original fishermen were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Yeshua.

Just as we discovered in last week's episode, there are certain markers on God's prophetic timeline. He has been on a timeline from the very beginning to the very end — consider the tree of life at the beginning of Genesis and again in Revelation 21 and 22. We are here for seven thousand years, which includes the thousand-year reign of Messiah, and then the eighth day — the eight-thousandth year — is eternity. He is on a prophetic timeline, and at the end of the age there are specific markers that open the gate for all of the biblical prophecies to be fulfilled. Jeremiah 16 and the prophecy of the fishermen and hunters is no different.

The year 1948 was a massive marker. The State of Israel was reborn — they became a nation again after almost two thousand years of not being a nation, having been destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. The year 1948 is the hinge that opens the door for the end-of-the-age prophecies. The Jewish people had to be a nation again, back in the land, in control of Jerusalem — all of these markers had to be fulfilled before the rest of biblical prophecy could be fulfilled, and ultimately before Yeshua's second coming and the thousand-year millennial kingdom. The 1948 marker begins the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy, with the fishermen released first and the hunters afterward. The blood moon tetrad of 1949 and 1950 is also a significant marker here, as we will see.

Let me read the prophecy itself again so we have clarity. Jeremiah 16:14–16 says: *"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.' For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers. Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks."*

This is an important and sobering prophecy. The hunting — the terror, the war — that will provoke the Jewish people back home after the fishermen have done their work is a grave matter. But this is all about the everlasting covenants, because of the fathers, just as the prophet says. God tells us how He is going to do it: the fishermen are released first, and then afterward the hunters are released to provoke the Jewish people back to the Promised Land. This connects to many other prophecies we will explore when we come to the time of Jacob's trouble. This prophecy will be fulfilled at a certain marker during the tribulation, and we will go through that in those videos, along with how it correlates to Matthew 24 and other prophecies. But Israel had to be a nation again for the people to be fished back in the quantities we are about to discuss.

Now, in the period from 1882 to 1948 — approximately 62 years before Israel became a state — about 307,000 Jewish people made Aliyah to the area. They were not yet a nation, but there was an Aliyah before 1948. However, from 1948 to 2020, which is 72 years, over 4 million Jewish people have made Aliyah and returned to the Promised Land. The Law of Return was passed in 1950, the same year as the 1949–1950 blood moon tetrad. The staggering difference in the numbers is telling: 62 years before statehood produced approximately 300,000 returns; 72 years after statehood produced over 4 million. This statistically confirms that this prophecy began its fulfillment in 1948 — the end-of-the-age fishermen of Jeremiah's prophecy were released with no question.